ABSTRACT
The previous two chapters have displayed how difficult it is to characterize adequately the differences between the various pastoral approaches to the treatment of melancholy articulated before and after the Restoration. As the contrast of Baxter and Rogers shows, not all Dissenters spoke with the same voice; and even Rogers, who is closest in tone and substance to the late sixteenth and early seventeenthcentury practical divines, displays significant departures from Elizabethan and Jacobean models. On the other hand, while I have suggested that something of a distinct Anglican consolatio emerged after the Restoration, it is arguable that, to a degree, the Anglican approach is continuous with the Calvinist past in certain of its practical aspects.
